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::He's been controversial for many years now -- go ahead and do your best! [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 03:51, 15 September 2012 (UTC) | ::He's been controversial for many years now -- go ahead and do your best! [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 03:51, 15 September 2012 (UTC) | ||
== Bad review == | |||
Diana Rigg did a book called "No Turn Unstoned", a collection of bad reviews compiled mainly by asking her friends in film/TV/theater for examples. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Turn_Unstoned | |||
I do not have the book to hand & cannot be exact, but she quoted a rejection letter from an American (San Francisco?) newspaper editor to Kipling about a story he'd submitted. It was utterly scathing and quite amusing with hindsight. [[User:Sandy Harris|Sandy Harris]] 09:21, 15 September 2012 (UTC) | |||
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The Faber Book of Parodies, ed Simon Brett, contains two very good parodies of Kipling, one of his verse, the other of his later short stories (which were not as good as his earlier ones). There are also what is more or less a straight attack in verse, by J K Stephen, and a cynical version of If. --[[User:Martin Wyatt|Martin Wyatt]] 18:35, 15 September 2012 (UTC) | |||
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I have made a start on this article, using readily availabe sources. Kipling is a writer about whom I have contradictory feelings. He has a wonderful style, both in prose and verse, as even the elitist TSE was obliged to recognise, and illuminating insights; but some of his attitudes (perhaps his underlying attitude - I do not know) are repugnant. Doubtless these views are shared, but I do not have enough information to reference them. --Martin Wyatt 20:46, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
- He's been controversial for many years now -- go ahead and do your best! Hayford Peirce 03:51, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
Bad review
Diana Rigg did a book called "No Turn Unstoned", a collection of bad reviews compiled mainly by asking her friends in film/TV/theater for examples. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Turn_Unstoned
I do not have the book to hand & cannot be exact, but she quoted a rejection letter from an American (San Francisco?) newspaper editor to Kipling about a story he'd submitted. It was utterly scathing and quite amusing with hindsight. Sandy Harris 09:21, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
And
The Faber Book of Parodies, ed Simon Brett, contains two very good parodies of Kipling, one of his verse, the other of his later short stories (which were not as good as his earlier ones). There are also what is more or less a straight attack in verse, by J K Stephen, and a cynical version of If. --Martin Wyatt 18:35, 15 September 2012 (UTC)